Well, we had a lovely weekend - we went to Stockholm for the first time since we left three years ago.

It was a bit weird, as I'm sure you can imagine. It felt in one way that we'd been away for a hundred years - and in others that it was just last week. We caught up with some old friends which was great - and of course bought some of the Swedish things we've missed - like Dumle, bilar, Kalles caviar and jordnuts ringar.

Obviously some things have changed. The department store NK had smartened itself up a lot, and there were a few new places like Debenhams of all things that made Stckholm, unfortunately, increasingly like everywhere else. But there was one big difference that showed us what the Swedes have been up to while we were were away.

Everywhere you look there are prams and strollers full of small children. The Swedes have been making babies - and lots of them. But then with a pretty deep recession they're only just climbing out of, and 18 months' free time off for new parents, you can't really blame them.

And it's these babies who'll be paying people my age's pension funds before too long...